The Coal Question (e-book)
The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Author: William Stanley Jevons
Edition Used: London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. (Second edition, revised)
First published: 1865
Hardcover: ISBN: B0007DNETY

• EoE Editor's Note
• Preface

1. Introduction and Outline
2. Opinions of Previous Writers
3. Geological Aspects of the Question
4. Of the Cost of Coal Mining
5. Of the Price of Coal
6. Of British Invention
7. Of the Economy of Fuel
8. Of Supposed Substitutes for Coal
9. Of the Natural law of Social Growth
10. Of the Growth and Migrations of our Population
11. Of the Change and Progress of our Industry
12. Of our Consumption of Coal
13. Of the Export and Import of Coal
14. On the Comparative Coal Resources of Different Countries
15. Of the Iron Trade
16. The Problem of the Trading Bodies
17. Of Taxes and the National Debt
18. Concluding Reflections